linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm v2 1/3] mm/oom_kill: remove the wrong fatal_signal_pending() check in oom_kill

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Date:	Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kyle Walker <kwalker@...hat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Stanislav Kozina <skozina@...hat.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v2 1/3] mm/oom_kill: remove the wrong fatal_signal_pending()
 check in oom_kill_process()

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> The fatal_signal_pending() was added to suppress unnecessary "sharing
> same memory" message, but it can't 100% help anyway because it can be
> false-negative; SIGKILL can be already dequeued.
> 
> And worse, it can be false-positive due to exec or coredump. exec is
> mostly fine, but coredump is not. It is possible that the group leader
> has the pending SIGKILL because its sub-thread originated the coredump,
> in this case we must not skip this process.
> 
> We could probably add the additional ->group_exit_task check but this
> pach just removes the wrong check along with pr_info().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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